Show BACK TO THE SEWING OF OUR GRANDMOTHERS Just plain sewing plain oldfash ioned handsewing carrie to be The fashion again Women who once worked mysteriously raised wool dogs and parrots on dark canvas and later crazy patchwork then Kensington embroidery em-broidery and only last year renaissance renais-sance lace now do fine white sewing felling hemming gathering finishing off hand embroidery which they do themselves or with dainty lace whipped on with almost Invisible stllchcs i Sewing like this our grandmothers did for themselves and their daughters and In many homes bits of It may be found now carefully put away in old chcsts and drawers the odor of lavender laven-der and dead roue leaves still clinging to them Machine sewing never has filled the place of such exquisite work aij used to be done In those olden days It hi something well worth reviving Like the arts of the Middle Ages which survived sur-vived through the fostering care of the monstcrleo this art has all the while been kept up by patient nuiui who have wrought their solitude all that these recent years could be purchased pur-chased of handmade underwear all that could be bought In the shops for now and tlnma there has been un old fnshloncd mother who saw that her daughters Im1 at least handmade piece In their tiosscau anti It was always al-ways a nightdress of softest stuff trimmed with real lace and seamed tucked and finished by her loving hands In the the days of the grandmothers sewing vts a part of every girls home training Now It Is taught In tha public pub-lic schools here and there as tehool boards icrognlxe that they did know a little In those times about the real education edu-cation of girls A dear hllchalrcd old lady tells how when she vnts a child slam became so interested In gathering her first rut lie that she went over the stroking so many times that she wore the pleca to threads before it wan ready for the band Soon the little maid was allowed to put together a garment for herself In an old Southern town there lived until recently a maiden lady representing the past who was held up as an example to T younger and more perverse female generation because as her aged mother would tell with pride When Gcorgl ana was fi I years old sue made a shift out and aLit for herself Shift Instill In-still among oldfashioned people time term for the essentially feminine garment gar-ment known ns a chemise It Is significant to note that with the revival of hand sewing the chemise has come to be the fashion again Once It was put aldc with many arguments us to Its being a clumsy and unnecessary unneces-sary piece of underwear Most of the highclass shops to supply sup-ply the Increased demand are now uhowlng a large supply of beautiful seti of handmade underwear All of it however is not done with the fine small otltchcH to be expected but the best of It Is exquisite In every particular particu-lar and as beautiful to look upon aa o watercolor painting executed by a master The truest rJgn of the revival of hand sewing is not tin timings seen In the shops but the facl that wonun ot leisure leis-ure ate making not only liner sheer linen IrlJlea for the neck but whole garments with no stitch of machine work upon them These are for them relves their children or us a gift to a friend One wealthy woman made recently an entire pcjllcoat the ruffles all tucked and many lace insertions let In by hand It was deplgncd as a birthday present for a friend herself a woman of means Corset covers which they have znado with their own delicate lingers are now an especially popular gift from one girlfriend girl-friend to another These are finished with wash ribbons which have an old fashioned air run all around through the border of Ince Insertion and tied In bows at the neck waist and shoulders Popular too us a gift and significant like tire return of the chemise IB the handmade fancy apron another feminine femi-nine bit of vcar long relegated to maid and the kitchen I It has been Raid that a woman never has such power oer a man asi when he watches her as Hie sits plying her needle in and out of a fold of soft white sewing So ajj theme always are women wo-men who prefer having Influence over men to other alms In life It Is not strange that needle and thread 5n the long summer days should rival golf sticks and ping pong racquet and balls as weapons In the hands of the summer girl wkh an eye to the real objects of her campaign |